Re: Login form - iOS keyboard hinting

Alexandros Vellis <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:06:03 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.mail.squirrelmail.devel
Organization National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:46:33 -0800
"Nick Sayer" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I've patched my 1.4.22 installation so that the login form Name:
> field is of type 'email' instead of 'text.' The purpose for doing so
> is so that iOS keyboards will have the e-mail nature - they'll show
> you the @ symbol on the alpha page and not default to initial-caps.
> 
> I don't know if I could do this as a plugin.

I'd vote that this is such a simple and useful patch / enhancement,
that we could just add it in core. That is, if it doesn't break
anything because of the HTML4 DTD we're using.

The keyboard would work nicely for all smartphones and tablets - iOS,
Android etc.

Alexandros

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